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gone-elsewhere-bye asked:

Hi! Would you be able to tell me if you think any parts of the Good Omens TV adaptation might be difficult for someone with an eating disorder? There's someone I want to watch it with but I'd like to be prepared just in case it becomes something difficult for them to handle.

Apart from Aziraphale’s delight in munching anything he comes across, I think all you really have to worry about is the Famine stuff in episode 3, and that has been cut to the bone – so the supermodel starving to death isn’t in there any longer. I think your friend should be fine.

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kaurwreck asked:

I was reminded by an ask regarding eating disorders & Good Omens (2019): I struggled with an eating disorder as a young teenager, and I picked up Good Omens approximately around the same time I began the process of recovery. Famine jumped out as such a brilliant and revealing adaption of the biblical figure, and I just wanted to thank you for creating a space for teenaged-me to relate a personal struggle to something fantastical and apocalyptic; it genuinely helped, thank you

You are so welcome! I’m so glad it helped!

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holistic-cinnamon-bun asked:

Hi Mr. Gaiman. How do you feel about people who read your characters in a way you didn't necessarily write them? For example, Aziraphale and Crowley in a relationship, etc. Some authors seem very passionate about whether or not their characters should be shipped with one another. I'd like to know your thoughts. Best wishes!

I write stories. Once they head out into the world, they are on their own. Readers are welcome to make up their own headcanons. 

As long as they don’t try and enforce their views about characters, places or plots on each other or on me, I’m just happy that they have headcanons. They are welcome to ship any of my characters with any of my other characters, or indeed, with anyone else’s other characters, as long as I never have to read it.

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aniktoa-deactivated20230422 asked:

Dear Neil, I wonder whether the narrator in good omens is unreliable? I know that it uses a third person omniscient narrator, and normally the narrator is reliable in this case. However, no one in the story actually knows about God’s plan, nor do the readers, so does it mean that the narrator probably doesn’t know about the whole truth either and therefore unreliable?

In the TV series the voice that narrates is the Voice of God. So it’s a first person narrative. Much more room for unreliability.

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So, I used a bit of my freelance money, money I wasn’t counting on essentially, to sign up for the @neil-gaiman Masterclass. I really wanted to take it, to hone my craft that much more, and I am so delighted by what I’ve seen. Hearing him talk is fantastic, and he’s always been a huge favorite of mine. I’m going to “be a little too honest” and say that I honestly teared up hearing him speak about ocean at the end of the lane and Coraline. Those books meant so much to me. I would absolutely die if I met him and am totally not ashamed of how much I would fangirl. It would be one for the records. But the best part of the class so far has been that I feel like in some strange distant way, Neil’s cheering for me. He’s cheering on all the writers that take the class and who want to publish or just improve and that feels fucking incredible.

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I really am.

And for those of you put off by the Masterclass cost, probably 50% of the posts on this Tumblr over the last 8 years are posts for writers. And my blog at Neilgaiman.com has millions of words on it, many of which are answers to writers as well. They are waiting for you, free.

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damevivienne asked:

Hi Neil. I very much enjoyed watching the trailer for Good Omens. Huge congratulations to you. One of my favourite books! However, we see a lot of romantically-coded scenes in the trailer with Crowley and Aziraphale and I am concerned about queer-baiting. The book was in that regard a product of its time, but I had hoped for better from the show. Is this a reasonable criticism, do you think?

Well, it’s obviously reasonable for you, or you wouldn’t have made it.

My goal was to adapt the novel you liked so much into a TV series that Terry Pratchett would have enjoyed that didn’t change anything in the book even if it expanded on things in the book. You will get a lot more of Crowley and Aziraphale’s 6000 years of history. You won’t get anything that contradicts what’s in the book.

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calicovirus-deactivated20190307 asked:

you have bad taste and your taste is bad and you need to stop mucking about with TV shite and go back to writing books. you’re not good at TV, and don’t let your lunatic of a wife convince you otherwise

My wife much prefers being married to a writer. I stay home and write and don’t go off to the UK for two years to make a television series just because I promised a dead friend I would.

I’m really happy with Good Omens and really proud of it. Why don’t you watch it all when it airs on May 31st, and then get back to me and let me know what you think. You may be pleasantly surprised.